Episode 281 - Tourettes with Song Lyrics

Physical media is evaporating. What's a boy to do? And women aren't winning BAFTAs or being hired to work in movies.

• Disney sends its DVD unit to Sony

• Disney Movie Club shuttering

• Fubo suing over the giant sports streaming platform from WBD, Disney and Fox

• Black women haven't won BAFTA’s in almost 80 years

• Women lead films total fell

• Paramount and Comcast considering a streaming team up

Episode 270 - Conscientious Unobjector

One Sunday Ticket please!

• YouTube TV is losing a billion dollars on NFL Sunday Ticket this year

• YouTube ad blockers are being blocked by YouTube

• Disney buying out Comcast from Hulu

• Local affiliates continue to urge treating streaming cable like regular cable

• Pause ads start showing in premium streaming apps for extra revenue

• Spotify’s royalty model is changing

Episode 264 - Law & Order of the Rings

More strike talk is happening because that's the toast of the town. Maybe some CNN and Chris Licht talk too. Plus: SAG joins the strike team; Spotify layoffs affect podcasting; CNN is in upheaval; and more.

• Disney and Comcast’s fight over Hulu

• SAG-AFTRA ready to vote for strike authorization

• As strike continues, upfronts focus on reality and sports

• Valve helped Nintendo get the Dolphin emulator removed from its own store

• Spotify doing podcast layoffs and combining the two studios it purchased

• Chris Licht’s CNN is a bunch of trouble

• Jeff Zucker speaks out on his CNN firing

• Licht tells CNN staff he’s not the story

• CNN’s crisis was born of Licht

• Licht is gone a week after Atlantic piece

• David Zaslav can’t treat CNN like he treats other networks, streamers

Episode 230 - Revenue Income

It's that time of the week again. Ugh. Listening to a podcast about what's going on int he business world of pop culture? Boring! I want to hear about pop culture itself, baby! Who's touching butts? What's the new trend on TikTok? Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? She lives in Solana Beach? Good for her. Plus: PARAMOUNT NETWORK rebrands the rebrand; NEIL YOUNG drops SPOTIFY; and a DISNEY family member is making a documentary about DISNEY.

• Paramount Network nixing the movie themed rebranding

• Peacock lost a lot of money for Comcast

• Neil Young leaves Spotify (again)

• Spotify can’t lose Joe Rogan

• Other streamers profit by doubling down on Neil Young

• Spotify’s market share drops

• A Disney documentary about how bad Disney is from Disney’s heirs

• Abigail Disney’s own company is at fault too

Episode 226 - Book Publishing Company

Hot dang, the podcast is back with all the entertainment business news you tell yourself you don’t like. Want to release your own SPAC? See how the big companies do it. It’s the hottest thing right now. Everything is SPAC this and SPAC that. I SPAC, you SPAC, we all SPAC. And we all know what it means. Yes, I do; shut up! Plus: BUZZFEED goes public and it’s not going so well; diversity in the U.K. film industry stagnates; and COMCAST is thinking about the future of its HULU deal with Disney + more!

• BuzzFeed Goes Public

• BuzzFeed shares fall on day one

• Media companies jumping into SPAC fray

• Where is U.K. diversity in TV and film now?

• French films non white characters less than 20%

• Comcast could pull NBC shows from Hulu in 2022

• Hulu doesn't need to worry about less frequent NBC shows